* 1954 – Jon Krakauer, American author

* 1954 – Pat Travers, Canadian singer and musician

* 1954 – Thom Bray, American actor

* 1954 – Jane Campion, New Zealand director

* 1954 – Frank-Michael Marczewski, German footballer

* 1954 – John Lloyd, English tennis player

* 1954 – Derek Warwick, English race car driver

* 1954 – Paul Steigerwald, American sportscaster

* 1954 – Ray Jennings, South African cricketer and coach

* 1954 – Radio Pakistan broadcasts the " Qaumī Tarāna ", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.

* 1954 – Nico Assumpção, Brazilian bass player ( d. 2001 )

In 1954 – 55, Australia's batsmen had no answer to the pace of Frank Tyson and Statham.

* 1954 – James Charles Kopp, American murderer of Barnett Slepian

* 1954 – Sammy McIlroy, Irish footballer and manager

* 1993 – Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver ( b. 1954 )

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954 ), was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

* 1954 – James Gleick, American author, journalist, and biographer

* 1954 – Benno Möhlmann, German footballer

* 1954 – Gary Peters, English footballer

Plastic Bertrand ( born Roger Allen François Jouret, 24 February 1954, Brussels ) is a Belgian musician, songwriter, producer, editor and television presenter, best known for the 1977 international hit single " Ça plane pour moi ".

Bertrand Blanchard Acosta ( January 1, 1895 – September 1, 1954 ) was a record setting aviator.

* Bertrand Blanchard Acosta ( 1895 – 1954 ), co-pilot on America, the third candidate for the Orteig prize ( 1927 ).

* Bertrand Blanchard Acosta ( 1895 – 1954 ), American aviator who flew in the Spanish Civil War

* 1954 – Ivo Van Damme, Belgian athlete ( d. 1976 )

* 1954 – Armand Parmentier, Belgian athlete

* 1954 – Philippe Geluck, Belgian cartoonist

Peroxisomes were identified as organelles by the Belgian cytologist Christian de Duve in 1967 after they had been first described by a Swedish doctoral student, J. Rhodin in 1954.

UEFA was founded on June 15, 1954 in Basel after consultation between Italian, French, and Belgian associations.

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

After the war, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in several Catholic governments between 1949 and 1954 and as economic advisor to the Belgian government and to the council of ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

* Isabelle Durant ( born 1954 ), Belgian politician

He emigrated to South Africa during 1949, and from then until 1954 was a researcher at the International Locust Control Centre at Cape Town University, investigating methods of locust control and going on expeditions to the Kalahari Desert, the Knysna Forest, the Belgian Congo and Mozambique.

Karel Lodewijk Georgette Emmerence De Gucht ( born 27 January 1954 ) is a Belgian politician who has been the European Commissioner for Trade since 2010.

Instead, he based his information on the country purely upon a single pamphlet, Moscou sans voiles ( Moscow Unveiled ), which had been written by Joseph Douillet ( 1878 – 1954 ), a former Belgian consul to Rostov-on-Don who had spent nine years in Russia following the 1917 revolution.

Explorers on the Moon, published in 1954, is the seventeenth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero.

Ivo Van Damme ( 21 February 1954 – 29 December 1976 ) was a Belgian middle distance runner.

* Johan Van Hecke ( born 1954 ), Belgian politician

Belgian painter Anto Carte ( 1886 – 1954 ) designed the eight stained glass windows representing the life of Jesus.

The 1954 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Spa-Francorchamps on 20 June 1954.

The tail of Mieres ' Maserati caught fire during the 1954 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa Francorchamps.

Ingrid Daubechies (; born 17 August 1954 ) is a Belgian physicist and mathematician.

Since 1954, the town has held a Remembrance Day celebration each July honoring General Patton and the US, British, French, Belgian and Luxembourgish troops who fought with him there.

* 1954 Spalding Tournament, Belgian Open

Johan Jozef Marie Clara Van Hecke ( born on 2 December 1954 in Ghent ) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for Flanders with the Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.

Stolaroff met Belgian chemist Edmond Fromont in 1954, and acquired the rights to distribute his patented formula of a mild clear soap that cleared the skin, without drying it, in the US.